Kraft Foods Receives "Above and Beyond Award" from U.S. Department of Defense
Kraft Foods received the "Above and Beyond Award" from the Indiana Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, in recognition of its extraordinary support of its employees serving in the National Guard and Reserve. Mike Hughes, Manager of the Kraft Foods Kendallville Plant, accepted the award on Thursday, May 13, 2010.
The National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard conducts an awards program designed to recognize employers who support a strong National Guard and Reserve force. Employers qualify for recognition when they practice leadership and personnel policies that support employee participation in the Guard and Reserve. The "Above and Beyond Award" is given in limited numbers by state and territory ESGR committees. It recognizes employers at the state and local level who have gone above and beyond the legal requirements for granting leave and providing support for military duty performed by their employees. The Indiana Committee for ESGR typically honors 10% of the year's Patriot Award winners with the "Above and Beyond Awards." Kraft Foods was granted a Patriot Award in April of 2009.
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LaGrange County man slips,
accidentally shoots self in chin
Indiana Conservation Officers say a man accidentally shot himself after falling Sunday, May 22, afternoon in South Milford. Wallace, 56, of Fort Wayne was standing on a submerged pier at Nauvoo Lake when he slipped and fell, causing the .22 rifle he was holding to discharge, striking him under the chin.
Kendallville Man Crushed At
NW Indiana Soap Factory
Story Updated: May 27, 2010 at 1:02 AM EDT
HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — State inspectors have checked a northwestern Indiana factory where a worker was killed in an industrial accident.
Authorities say 61-year-old Steve Mangona of Kendallville suffered multiple crushing injuries that killed him Sunday at the Unilever soap factory in Hammond.
United Steelworkers officials say Mangona was an electrician who was crushed by a heavy metal cover he was lifting with a remote-controlled crane.
State labor department spokesman Marc Lotter said inspectors didn't immediately rule on a cause for the accident.
Ex-local pastor vying to be Lutheran bishop
By the end of today, the nearly 20,000 members of Fort Wayne-area churches affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America will have a new bishop.
The denomination’s Indiana-Kentucky Synod, which is having its annual assembly in Covington, Ky., through Sunday, is electing a successor to the Rev. James Stuck. Stuck last month announced he will retire Aug. 31 after 12 years as bishop.
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Healthcare tools, techniques always evolving
When health problems strike, the last thing a patient wants to worry about is whether a hospital or doctor’s office is up-to-date on techniques and technologies.
The newest bit of technology at Parkview Noble Hospital has been in use for about three years, and it gets patients seen by a specialist in Fort Wayne without having to leave the Kendallville hospital.
The hospital has joined a program that links many of the hospitals in the Fort Wayne area: the Stroke Care Now Network. Dr. Terry Gaff, director of the emergency department at Parkview Noble and medical director of the Noble County emergency medical system, calls the system a life-saving technology that can truly benefit stroke victims.
Here’s how it works: if a patient feels he might be having a stroke, he is brought into the emergency room at Parkview Noble, and physicians assess the severity of the stroke.
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Written test spells end for JG bee contestant
WASHINGTON – “Briton” and “orison” were no match for Kendallville 14-year-old Alexia Zawadzke, who spelled both words correctly in the preliminary rounds of the national spelling bee Thursday.
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Local Aramark vending under new ownership
Aramark Corp. has sold its Fort Wayne vending services to Snyder Food Services Inc. of Kendallville for an undisclosed sum.
CEO Jeff Snyder said there were no major changes other than his business’ deciding to lease parking space at Aramark’s Fort Wayne location.
All but two of the company’s 13 vending services workers were retained.
“One wanted to retire and the other wanted to go back to school,” Snyder said.
Aramark also has Fort Wayne locations at 1625 Production Road and 1221 Coliseum Blvd. W. It also has an Auburn site.
Bubbling Up From the Earth, a Cool, Clear Gift
The most hopping place in this suburban town on a weekday afternoon is Flowing Well Park, where cool water gushes from the deep as a nonstop gift of nature, its splashes upstaging the drone of a busy road.
Here in Indiana, at least a couple of dozen remain improbably intact, mostly at rural sites that have sometimes been used for hundreds of years. State health officials said they monitored the safety of nine artesian wells that are officially classified as public water sources. Although at least one of the state’s artesian wells was at one point tapped by bottlers, most are too small to sustain corporate bottling, and many would surely be defended by local users.
Photo caption: Avilla Flowing Well in Avilla is among the open access artesian wells in Indiana documented by Ms. Westhues.
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Kendallville gets grant leading to 65 jobs
The Journal Gazette
Kendallville has been awarded a $455,000 economic development grant to help create 65 jobs at Creative Liquid Coatings Inc., Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman announced today, April 14.
The grant from the Community Economic Development Program is to purchase capital equipment to help the company expand, Skillman said in a statement.
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Business spotlight: Sozo Art Studio and Gallery
Peggy Caron-Tassler owns the Sozo Art Studio and Gallery in Kendallville. Sozo Art Studio and Gallery Address : 113 S. Main St., Kendallville At a glance : Mural artist and painter Employees : One intern.
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Not your everyday pet
Manager Chad Stayner at Exotic Aquatics and Pets in Kendallville catches a tiny tropical fish in a small-handled scoop strainer from one his shop's fish tanks and shows it to a customer.
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